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in favour of the '' sonnō jōi'' ("Revere the emperor, expel the barbarians") policy.

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A shogunal pacification force was sent to Mount Tsukuba on 17 June 1864, consisting of 700 Mito soldiers led by Ichikawa, with 3 to 5 cannons and at least 200 firearms, as well as a Tokugawa shogunate force of 3,000 men with over 600 firearms and several cannons. As the conflict escalated, on 10 October 1864 at Nakaminato, the shogunate force of 6,700 was defeated by 2000 insurgents, and several shogunal defeats followed. The insurgents were weakening, however, dwindling to about 1,000. By December 1864 they faced a new force under

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(himself born in Mito) numbering over 10,000, which ultimately forced them to surrender. The uprising resulted in 1,300 dead on the rebels' side, which suffered vicious repression, including 353 executions and approximately 100 who died in captivity.Totman, p.120

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* Mito and Hikone had been hostile since the Sakurada Gate incident in 1860. Mito and Hikone were reconciled by

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, the deathplace of Tengutō members, after 110 years of the incident. * Nuclear dense zones of Japan are concentrated near Mito and near Tsuruga, these two places are related by the Tengutō rebellion. Especially, Jōyō ( Ōarai, a neighbor of Mito) and Monju (Tsuruga) are two

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s in Japan.

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* Totman, Conrad. (1980). ''The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862–1868'' University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, {{Authority control 1864 in Japan 1865 in Japan Conflicts in 1864 Conflicts in 1865 19th-century rebellions Bakumatsu Rebellions in Japan Mito Domain History of Fukui Prefecture

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